Saturday, March 28, 2009

My friend Tariq came along to the studio last night and playedalong to a load of old Frank Zappa records. There was a bit of aglitch with the recording equipment at the beginning of the showso this mix takes off from when I pressed record and the Mini-Discplayer actually worked!

This photo was of him arriving at the studio, there are none inexistence of him actually playing in the studio because I forgotto take any and I was too busy mixing. If your unfamiliar withFZ then this may be a good intro to him as there were severalof his more commercial tunes in this mix tho it was more of thesmutty end of his stuff, but hey, thats Frank, y'know,give it a go anyway cheers!

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I was kindly sent some session tracks by AP and mixed themup on the show one evening and this was the result. I also wentto see the band perform while they were here and a splendid timeit was too. I shall look forward to posting up more of my mixes bothfresh and archived and thanx kindly for the invitation to post here.x Head Gardener

Monday, March 2, 2009

I wanted to do a soul mix of sorts, but with the catch that I'd use only recent electronic artists. After some sifting I patched together the following, which is a bit long but good for late-night bouts with insomnia. Might be a bit lite and coffee haus-ish for some, but with all of the bass-heavy tracks, it sounds good under the influence. The vague image I had for this mix is a girl gets back in the evening after work, sits back on her couch, takes a few hits from the pipe and puts this mix on, wondering why it didn't work out with him. Charles Cooper of Telefon Tel Aviv killed himself just recently, and I can't help but think of him now when I listen to his song here.